I guess that means you can't put your Dead Man's Switch video on youtube anymore. How far into the future can you schedule a video anyway.
“Older unlisted videos will be made private unless you opt out”
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#52That's unfortunate. I have a few videos which seems to have been forgotten even by their uploaders. Those videos would probably not be updated. I guess I need to back them up manually.
I have one video in my favorites that is marked as unavailable. This drives me crazy I'll never know what that video was. I only have a couple videos in my favorites and every single one of them is important to me. If you can back them up.
I have hundreds of missing videos in my various lists.
I wish youtube would at least keep the title there so you know what it is that has been lost.
Welcome to the alzheimic future.
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#54That's unfortunate. I have a few videos which seems to have been forgotten even by their uploaders. Those videos would probably not be updated. I guess I need to back them up manually.
Or uploaders who have died and may have unlisted videos and linked to them in descriptions or comments.
I don't recall the creator, but I do recall a video series that used links in the videos that pointed to other videos for a basic quiz or choose your own adventure.
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Yes, exactly. Video ID is just a base64'ed DES-encrypted primary int64 video key from MySQL. It used to be sequentially incremented until at some point they switched to randomly generated primary keys. Any (ex-) engineer who snapped a copy of the encryption key (it used to sit right in the code for anyone to see) can enumerate all videos from YT until that moment, including unlisted - which are only protected by secr…
Just for curiosity, how would YT deal with ID collision ? Edit: Before the scheme change I mean
Probably they just roll again. You can even implement that in a stored procedure.
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#56That's unfortunate. I have a few videos which seems to have been forgotten even by their uploaders. Those videos would probably not be updated. I guess I need to back them up manually.
I have one video in my favorites that is marked as unavailable. This drives me crazy I'll never know what that video was. I only have a couple videos in my favorites and every single one of them is important to me. If you can back them up.
Does youtube-dl support playlists?
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#57Very, very drastic, but this is basically the public S3 bucket situation for videos.
Maybe another video category would have made for better distinction than just Public, Unlisted, and Private.
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I have one video in my favorites that is marked as unavailable. This drives me crazy I'll never know what that video was. I only have a couple videos in my favorites and every single one of them is important to me. If you can back them up.
Does youtube-dl support playlists?
yeah it will try to download a whole playlist if you give it the URL of the playlist. Last I tried.
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#59That's unfortunate. I have a few videos which seems to have been forgotten even by their uploaders. Those videos would probably not be updated. I guess I need to back them up manually.
I have one video in my favorites that is marked as unavailable. This drives me crazy I'll never know what that video was. I only have a couple videos in my favorites and every single one of them is important to me. If you can back them up.
I had the same problem with a few old videos in my favourites. Google search for the alphanumeric text after "watch?v=" in the URL of the video. In most cases, you will find some information about the video from pages where it might have been embedded.
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I have one video in my favorites that is marked as unavailable. This drives me crazy I'll never know what that video was. I only have a couple videos in my favorites and every single one of them is important to me. If you can back them up.
I have hundreds of missing videos in my various lists. I wish youtube would at least keep the title there so you know what it is that has been lost. Welcome to the alzheimic future.
That’s a feature. If somebody deletes their video then all of the metadata goes with it. I agree that it can be annoying but among other things, it’s the law.